"MGG" wrote in
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That was a GREAT story, BTW. I'm somewhat familiar with the area
having lived in Auburn for a couple of years about 25 years ago. I
dated a gal for a while who's had a place on Skaneatles Lake.
Beautiful country...LOUSY weather I went straight from there to
California and never looked back. That's not entirely true...I do miss
all the water in that area.

I always tell everyone it was a great place to grow up....and a great
place to be FROM.....as long as I don't have to live there, now....

Moravia now has Auburn's disease...a state prison...a huge state prison!
When the political idiots got dollar signs in their heads, they forgot
that prisoners take showers and flush toilets...a LOT! The prisoners got
even inundating the tiny town with enough sewage to just overrun the
place. How stupid. Poor Moravia will never be out little town any
more....economically disasterous and a great place to grow up.

Moravia's fine tourist resort, that was nothing but a row of trailers in
the woods on Lick Street when I was in high school, has grown into a
first class nudist resort....in the summer, I suppose:
http://www.homestead.com/empirehaven/
When I was in Moravia Central School's high school, "scoring" meant
getting your girlfriend to go to Empire Haven for a day...(c;
I see from the new webpage they've gotten their own address, but it's
still on Lick Street up in the state forest on the hill, which is still
very funny. Nice pool!

Back quite a few years when it was three rows of old trailers, I met a
ham radio operator who lived at Empire Haven year 'round. He was in his
70s. So wasn't my widowed grandmother who lived in the lake house until
she was in her late 80's. She moved into the Skaneateles senior citizens
home when her kids put their foot down, afraid she'd fall climbing the
steep stairs to her bedroom on the lake. So.....she told me she was
lonely being all alone, before....so I gave this ham radio operator her
number. He called her and they talked for hours. THEN, she called me
and was laughing so hard she could hardly talk. "I'm not gonna go up
there and get naked with a bunch of old farts!", she told me. He DID put
on his clothes and come visit her many times.... She later fell in love
with an old pensioner at the Skaneateles home who lived down the hall.
She cooked and baked for him, but neither one of them could afford to
lose their SSA money getting married. That love affair went on for years
until he died of a heart attack. She's gone, too, now and I miss her
awful....(snif).

Well, I can see you're checking out the webpages in Moravia....carry
on....(c;

When I call Moravia I always ask them, "What day was Summer, this year??"
Tonight: A chance of showers before 2am, then a chance for sprinkles.
Mostly cloudy, with a low around 46. West wind between 5 and 10 mph.
Chance of precipitation is 30%.

Monday: Partly cloudy, with a high near 59. West wind between 5 and 10
mph.

Monday Night: A chance of sprinkles before midnight. Partly cloudy, with
a low around 44. West wind between 7 and 10 mph.

Tuesday: Partly cloudy, with a high near 63. West wind between 7 and 13
mph.

Brrrr......(shudder)......
They tell me it's great because it keeps the MEXICANS OUT!
They have a point....(c;

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